限时练18 阅读理解+语法填空+应用文写作-【红对勾】2023版新高考英语二轮复习讲与练

　 　 　 　 讲与练 高三二轮·英语 限时练 18　 阅读理解+语法填空+应用文写作 (时间:40 分钟) Ⅰ、阅读理解 (2022·广州市模拟) Growing up on a farm in northeastern Brazil, I was the first and only person in my family to graduate from high school and pursue higher education. My parents worked on a small farm inherited (继承) from my grandparents. I helped out when I was not in school. My parents always had a close relationship with nature, so they knew the exact time of year to plant or pick certain fruits. I learned from my parents about the large bees that frequented one of our fruit crops—mangangava, we called them. This was the main reason I became interested in biology. In college, as a black student, from a rural community, I did not see myself in my professors, most of whom were white and spoke with a different accent. Even if I studied for several hours per day, I fell behind peers who came from private schools. The feeling of not belonging circled in my head. I sometimes thought about giving up. But one day, when I was asked to give a presentation about bees, I didn􀆳t mention their familiar name; instead I used formal terms when describing their adaptations for pollinating (授粉) . I was afraid of being judged for expressing my personal knowledge in a science class. But one of the instructors pressed me to tell the class whether I􀆳d seen the bees myself and what I called them and said tapping into my personal experiences would help me grasp the scientific concepts. No other professors had shown that kind of sensitivity.